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From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin termcap entry
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:09:11PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I'd like to replace our termcap entry for cygwin with either one taken
> > from /etc/termcap on a Cygwin system, as in the patch below, or maybe
> > with the one from http://catb.org/esr/terminfo/termtypes.tc.gz.
> >
> > Any comments?
> 
> The problem is that it _does_ share capabilities with linux, so don't
> get rid of tc=linux.

The one from catb.org has tc=ansi.sys instead; just because there are a
common subset of capabilities doesn't necessarily imply that it should
use tc=, in my opinion.  Does it share capabilities with Linux because
it is based on some code in Linux?

-Ed